Thousands of greyhounds are bred each year for racing in Australia, but many are killed when they are no longer useful to the racing industry. Some are euthanized, while others are sent to laboratories for research or to countries with no animal welfare laws. The dog racing industry exploits and destroys large numbers of greyhounds for gambling purposes each year, despite greyhounds making great pets. More people are questioning the justification of dog racing that leads to injuries and deaths of dogs for entertainment.

1. Greyhounds….
still
running for their lives
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2. Around 20,000 greyhounds
are bred for racing in
Australia every year.
Overbreeding =
MASS WASTAGE
For Greyhounds, it literally
is the QUICK, or the DEAD!
Thousands upon
thousands of dogs are
killed each year when no
longer required by the
racing industry.

3. Greyhounds are NOT just race dogs.
They make great pets.
It is astonishing that the mass exploitation
of a breed of one of the world‟s most
favoured species of companion animal is
accepted and condoned in our modern
society – in the name of entertainment
and sport , and incredibly, for gambling.
PETS, NOT BETS!

4. Thousands upon thousands of healthy, young Greyhounds are
destroyed each year when no longer required by this racing and
betting industry.
There are even vet clinics catering to this dog-killing industry that
offer cheap euthanasia rates especially for Greyhounds.
But many meet a sorrier end.
Thousands are sent to universities and science labs every year –
their over-abundance and favourable anatomy making them an
ideal choice for veterinary science study and training.
Hundreds are also sent to China – to a country with no animal
welfare laws and documented atrocities.
WHY?

5. Are Australians conditioned into a quiet acceptance of a
betting industry that exploits and destroys multitudes of
animals?
Australia is a betting nation. Apparently Aussies are the
biggest gamblers in the world - losing more money per
capita than any other country. Embarrassingly, having a
punt on the dogs or horses seems so embedded in
Australian culture that the destruction of masses of animals
goes unchecked.
The handful of greyhound rescue groups around the
country cannot possibly cope with the enormous volume of
dogs being routinely discarded – nor the inevitable clash
with an industry and government that defend the purported
economic and social benefits of dog racing and betting.

6. Humans have long given themselves rights and privileges over other
species.
Dog racing has been an iconic Aussie pastime since the 1920‟s.
However, there is a slowly increasing disregard for it. Dogs being
injured and killed for entertainment and gambling is becoming much
more difficult to justify. Dog racing is losing favour around the
world,… illegal in South Africa, declining in the UK, and Grey2K USA
says there are now only 22 operational tracks in 7 states of the USA.
These are DOGS – not racing machines.
Friendly, gentle, affectionate and placid dogs that make great pets for
people of all ages – including young children and the elderly.
Greyhounds make fantastic pets-as-therapy dogs and are becoming
popular as resident pets in nursing homes.

7. Decades of racing promotion, seeing them muzzled, and regarding
greyhounds as those fast dogs that chase things has produced a stigma
about the breed.
Unfortunately there are still many Australians that mistakenly view the
Greyhound as just a “racing dog”. Sadly this ignorance extends to
management and staff at pounds and shelters around the country where
many gorgeous greyhounds, discarded by the racing industry, find
themselves incarcerated and inevitably destroyed.
Many quiet, sociable, predominantly lazy, easy-care dogs, well suited to
indoor life with busy families in high-density suburban areas, are overlooked
or disregarded for adoption opportunities due to a lack of familiarity, or
understanding, and due to the absence of promotion and recommendation.

8. The dog racing industry seems to view these dogs only in terms of
commercial gain, glossing over the appallingly negative consequences for the
masses of dogs used then discarded, and delivering effective marketing and
promotional campaigns and clever “spin” to glamorise the code and deflect
welfare concerns. It is a breeding lottery for the fastest runner, with very little
accountability, transparency or responsibility. Despite their claims of welfare
initiatives to reduce breeding rates, address wastage, and improve conditions
for the dogs, it seems that these activities, and even the industry-associated
adoption programs and limited state government muzzling exemptions and
testing protocols, are only token gestures aimed at protecting the industry –
not the dogs.
Industry participants have denounced the „book-maker‟s tracks‟ which are
built with an early turn - soon after the dogs leap from their starting boxes -
which causes them to bunch up and often collide and fall, resulting in injuries
or even death. Apparently it makes great televised racing. #!??!
It is estimated that an injury to a Greyhound occurs at least once in every
race.

9. 80 years on and Greyhounds are still running for their lives.
The negative consequences for these beautiful dogs continues. This dog-
killing industry continues to thrive in our communities. These are friendly,
gentle placid dogs that thrive on human companionship whose natural speed
and ability has made them a victim of exploitation and greed – and they need
YOUR HELP!